Quotes about Learning

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.